She should’ve learned how to get herself up in the morning by the time she was 13! She shouldn’t have to rely on her stepson to be a functioning member of society.

There are times when sleeping through your alarm is totally understandable. I often tell myself that I’m going to wake up at 5 AM to cook myself a big breakfast, shower, and clean my apartment. When 5 AM rolls around, my body completely forgets about that plan, probably because it isn’t particularly urgent, so it sleeps through the early alarm I set for myself. Luckily for me, I set enough alarms and hit the snooze button like 5 times, so when 7:30 AM rolls around, I am jolted awake for real. 

It can be pretty annoying to live with someone who sets six alarms that are all inevitably set to snooze, but it’s far worse to live with someone who cannot wake up for even a second after they hear an alarm. There are people out there who can sleep soundly, even when their phone has been blaring for the past five minutes, begging them to awake from their slumber for merely a second to turn the sound off.